Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 210, Decatur, Adams County, 6 September 1951 — Page 1

Vol. XLIX. NoO2lO.

CHINESE REDS OPEN NEW SAVAGE ATTACKS

TKremlin Block To Jap Treaty Cleared Away Fourth Session Os Treqty Conference Is UnderWay Today r BULLETIN ' San Sept. 6 r—(UP)—The Ceylonese delegate to the Japanese peace treaty conference received thunder- < ous applause today when he said the treaty provides free'dems ‘the people of the Soviet Union themselves would dearly love to possess.” \ r San. Francisco. Sept. 6 —> , The fourth business session of the Japanese peace conference convened, today with Kremlin roadblocks cleared away and sights set on signing the treaty Saturday. . v The session was, ’called to order at 40:09 a. m. PDT (ll:0fr a. m. CST) hy conference vice president I*ercy Spender. • j The day’s agenda failed, only for a continuation of speeches by spokesman for the various nations represented. The morning session heard from the small nations, including El Salvador. Norway, Haiti, Nicaragua, Egypt. Laos and Ceylon. The States Relegation held a . jwe-breakfast strategy meeting bej*|ncb-closed <3oors. Secretary of st®te Dean Achesdnr talked with his chief treaty advisers, experts on Soviet affairs and congressional members of the delegation. It ’Was hflifeved they reviewed possible further moves by the Soviet bloc, Although diplomats sett that the worst wasvwer. J; Meanwhile, it was learned that Egypt I and the Philippines were prepared to voice reservations, on the, Japanese pact. | Delegates were slow in arriving for the morning sessipn but everpunctual Soviet deputy foreign minister Andrei Gromyko was in his season the dot. Prime minister Shigeru Yoshida of Japan, still, had not arrived when the gavel fell:- i■ ' J' ■ - First speakier at thk morning Session was El Salvador’s > ambassador to the United .States, Hector David Castro. ' Castro described the pact as a “constructive step forward which lias been too long delayed.” He called on the signatory nations to support Japan for membership in the United Nations, :: ’ Castro said that the nations should “at all costs avoid in Jaßan what happened in Korea. The withdrawal of foreign forces now " could makfe Japan a new victim of reactionary elements iri Asia. He spoke for 25 minates. Then Ambassador / Wilhelm Munthe Morgeristierne of Norway ■ went to the lectern. The Norwegian delegate said his government Telt the peace treaty should be ‘‘won-punitive. Put, he said, this Rid not relieve ' Japan of responsibility for suffering it caused during: the Pacific war. , , : • ■ , Morgenstierne said; it was un* fortunate that the treaty lacked provisions Tor restricting the Japanese whaling“fleet. He also ex- - pressed the vf6w that some provision should have been included to indemnify allied merchant. sea- ' men taken, prisoner by the -Japanese. • f Delegate Mohamed Kamil Bey Abdyl Rahim, i ambassador to the U. 'S., spoke for Egypt. Two School Teachers , Die In Auto Crash Martinsville, Ind., Sept. 6.-— Mooresville school teachers returning-from a Morgan county foacheris institute here were killed yesterday in a twocar headon collision on Ind. 67. Killed in the accident three miles north ,of .fibre were Mrs. Nina McHafife, 44, and, Mrs. Net- ; tie Horton. 57, driver of the car. Both taught at Walnut Grove -grade school, where the fal semester is s scheduled to start today, INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy this afternoon, becoming mostly fair tonight . ‘ and Friday, Cooler tonight Low (tonight 55 to 60. High _JFrlday&rhid 70*8 north, around 80 south. " > ”

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first Atomic Plane Now Taking Shape • • " 1 Experts Convinced Plane Can Be Built Washington. Septv 6—- (UP) — 0« world’s first atomic plane—a sky giant that-may dwarf the B-36 bomber—how is taking shape on ■the drawing boards of Consolidated! Vulteß engineers at Fort Worth, Tex: ' . • 'i | '[ : ,’ • •*The whole project ds top secret,” said August C, Esenwien. manager of Convairis Fort Worth division. “There isn’t much more to say.” The ’air force’s ' announcement yesterday that the aircraft corporation has been given a contract to build the atomic: plane’s body Was somewhat belated. ! ; Authoritative quarters said that Convair was picked as long ago as last February for the challenging undertaking and preliminary planning is underway. 11 The designs #re far enough along fO require close cooperation between Convair, General] Electric C«t, which has been xyorking on the’ atomic engine, the air force, and thte atomic energy commission. After five years of preliminary research, top atomic and aircraft experts are convinced that the plane can be built, and tha,t it will be capable of flying non-stop around the world at incredible speed. - • They don’t. know yet how long it will take to complete it, but few expect the flight-testing to take place before 1955 or 1956; [h I Thus the atomip plane is far behind the atomic submarine, which H already being built ut Grotoh, Conn., and may be launched within two years or less. ■ Together, the atomic-powered draft will revolutionise air and sea warfare. Their great advantage will be almost unlimited “range; their nuclear engines will ijie able to run for days or even months at a time without refuelling. ’ .The air force wants anJatomlcf filane every bit as badly as the navy wants an atomic -subrnarine. The plane project is coming along m<ire slowly, not because It has a lower priority, but only because it is a much more difficult i,en|ineerijig teat.\ ! 29 Building Permits Issued Last Months J \ A total of 29 building permits were issiied by city engineer Ralph E. Roop during August for a total of 169.420, according to a report released by his-office today. Among the permits issued were for new homesa with a total valuation of $52,195. Nine permits Were issued for new garages, at a total cost of $5,050. L Alteration permits were issued tp 11 persons, two of thent in the .’jfnpre than SI,OOO category” totalling $9,000, and nine of them for “less than $1,000” : totaling $2,825. Roop's office t also issued perinits for the expansion of garages totali&ig $250, as well as permits to allow trailers to sit in place for six months. This latter SIOO. James Fleming Dies Wednesday Evening Funeral Services ; Saturday Morning ( James Fleming, 77, of 610 KekioDga street, died at 8:;30 o’clock \|'edneiday evening at the A’dams county imemorial hospital following a hfeart attack. /Hei had been ha Jailing health for several years. He was born jpjs’ew Antipch, O.» Jan. 6, 1874, a son of Joseph and Alice Dodd-Flerning, and had never married. A retired farmer, he .resided with a brother .John B. Flenv , ing. : ... He was a! member of the Christian church. 4 Surviving are three brothers. John B. Fleming [of Decatur, L. D. Fleming of Wilmington. O„ and Benjamin Fleming of Xenia, O.; one sister, Mrs. Nettie Gephart of California;, his stepmother, Mrs. Lydia Fleming of Peoples, 0., and stepsisters, Miss Cbrdy Fleming of Peoples and Mrs. Hattie Douglas of Dayton, O. Three brothers and one sister are_ deceased. Funeral [services will be held at 9 A.m. Saturday at the ZWick funeral home, the Rev. Jonas Berkey Officiating.' Burial will be at New Aeftibch. O. Frihnds may call at the funeral home after o’clock tbgs evening.

Gromyko Gets Nowhere —Fast ' I ' i,’ ■ , ... f. ...... - A «■ - ! * 1 I w—J 'll I Is/ / 7 Ii I I ‘ S’. ‘ ’ ■" F ’ " ' ’ ‘ . I , i ANDRAE GROMYKO, veteran Soviet vetdier, (Stands before the opening session of the Japanese peace conference in San Francisco, in the process df ;his initial attempt to scuttle the proceedings. He suffered eleveri rebuffs On motions but, worst of alt U. S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson elected permanent president by a vote of 42 to 2. [. t ' » ' . ' \ .

Two Men Killed In Small Plane Crash Wreckage Is Found Near Noblesville Noblesville. Ind., Sept. 6—-(UP) r—A Pennsylvania soldier and an Indiana milk distributor Were killed last might when a" small private plane crashed on a farm west of here. * [ The wreckage containing t two J»odles was found this morning, [hturs aftdr the plane was reported overduh on a flight from Benton Harbßr, Mich., to Edinburg, i; .1 . j The ile4d were not identified-by state >police immediately. But relatives of Don Breeding. 30, a milk distributor at they haR peen notifieß that IJreeßing was kiileß. !'l> They sRiR the passenger in his plane' wRs Pfc. Jack Bjezilion, Washington, Pa., a member of the 2Sth ihfantry divisioii, who went along for:, the rides with Breeding •gu a shoft round-trip:-flight from Edinburg to get machinery, repair ■parts for an Ehinburg Industrial concern. 7 V - The twR left the Franklin, Ind., airport at 4:3<X\p. m. yesterday, and started the return trip from Benton Hhrbor before dusk. f The plane was found crashed on a farm noFth of a boys’ camp alprig Ind. 38 .west of Noblesville, according to a; radios message from a state police post to Indianapolis The plahe was scheduled to land at a small private airport south of Franklin, -Ind., last night. At Ediriburg, the publisher of the Daily; Courier said the plane was one piloted by Don Breeding, 30, a mllM distributor for the East End Of Indianapolis. Publisher Francis A. Otto said BreedihgVwas dverdue on a flight from Mficnigan./ Breeding, the father of two young children, owned his own plane and' had flown for years as a hobby, f '-7J . . I “ J M J ■ . Soldier Is Held In Death Os Young Girl -■I Ottumwa, la.| Sept. 6.— Sheriff Eterett Orman was scheduled to bring a Chanute Field. 111, soldier td Ottumwa today to face charges ih the death Os a 17-year-o'ld girl who fell from hts car. \. { CarrolE Mclntire. 20, Fairfield, la., was charged with assault with intent to? do great bodily Injury, before Martha Lyman died Tuesday nighj. Authorities have said they change the charge because of her death. The girl was reported to have told hei mother that* Mclntire pushed hfer from the car Saturdav night. However, Mclntire told Chanute Held officers that Martha tried to Jump and he restrained her and that shle must have fallen of jumprid when his back was turned.

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Decatur's Tax Rate Now Stands At $3.89 The [ tax rate payable in Decatur-Washington taxing unit now stands at $3.89 on each SIOO, a reduction pf three cents under the current $3.92 rate. The coiinty council reduced three levies which affect Decatur’s total rate. ’ The county’s general fund was cut one cent, the hospital levy two cents aWd 4, one-’ half cent was clipped from the county welfare department’s rate. The rate Un Decatur-Root township will bp a little higher, due, to school [boyd levies in township. , * Ocfober'Draff Call I Increase Announced October Draft Will Total: 44,600 Men Washington, Sept. 6-tV(Up)— The defence department gnnounced totiay thkt the October draft call has been increased from 41,000 to 44.600 men.' \ ' ; Os t|ie rien brought in -through selective service during (Jctpber, 36,000 will be assigned to the army and 8,600 |td the marine i corps. This represents an increase of 3.600 for the marine corps which has been funning short of volunteers. > The department said an increased draft fdr \ the marine corps is necessary for the to meet planned strength. \ ' The, department alsq announced that 33,700 Imen will be drafted in November. |Of this numbey, 29,000 will be assigned to the army and 4,700 to the marine corps. \ When the October and November calls are filled, 7J2,400 draftees wil lhave tfeen called up under selective since the beginning of the war, Quota 1,674 Indianapolis, Sept. 6 — (UP) —* The defense department’s increase of the October draft call boosted the quota by 135, state selective service headquarters said today. “ The national increase was 3,600 —from to 44,600. Thqt raided the Indiana quota from 1,539 fto 1,67!. \ '• ' f ■ F ' ! ' Decatiiif Dry Spell Ends Evening The dry . spell ended last \ night when rain! fell in Decatur early in the evening and continued for a;few houfs. Rainfall was measured at .32 of an inch, . Herman “Hi” Meyer, local wehtbef observer, reported. The [soft | shower aided pickle patches arid did some good to corn, farmers stated. Lawns had turned brown and the show©* was needed to perk the grass Hnto late summer verdancy. j §

Gen. MacArthur In Cleveland Tonight! Speaks Tonight To State Legislature \ > .Cleveland, 0.. Sept. 6—(UP)— gen. Douglas MacArthur, the man Bo wasn’t Invited to the Japan* »[peace I conference, came here t today to speak his mind about the treaty and the part it will play in the east-west struggle. ’ V Cleveland put on a show for the Pacific wa}- hero, who led the peaceful invasion of Jap*an and guided the Japanese loward a new place ih the family of free nations; ■/ Thousands roared a welcome to the r waving general and his smiling wife as they rode in a parade from Cleveland-Hopkins airport along With Gov. Frank J. Lausche of Ohio and Mayor Thomas Burke ■ of Cleveland. \ MacArthur will deliver a major address tonight, and the diplomats of 52 nations attending the Jap-: anese treaty conference in San Hanclapo will be listening: MacArthur has announced he did not receive a formal Invitation from the state department to attend or address the conference and will not Rttend unless he is irivited by the full conference. ; MacArthur will address members 'of the Ohio legislature and the Ruhlic at 7 p. m 3 (CST) in the municipal auditorium. Thp speegh <Twr» To Pace SU» • L-- ' ' ' Selking, Jones On 3 Tax Review Board August Selking, Root towpship trustee, and Charles Joneis, member Os the Adams county council, were selected by their respective, to become members of the Adams county tax adjustment board; It was learned today. I ’ \ , Mayor John Doan, hy virtiie of his office, is a member, and Judge Myles F. Parrish had previously “the other four members. New. Albany Youth Drowned Wednesday New Albany, Ind., Sept. 6.— (UP)—John Kelvin Barker, 18, New Albany, drowned in Carters hole four iniles northeast of here yesterday. The body was recovered by state police troopers and and Emery Laduke, Barker’s companion. Lebanon Youth Dies As Auto Hits Truck i Indianapolis, Sept. 6—(JJP)JBobby Lee Ward, 20, Lebanon, was killed today when his car hit a tractor-trailer on U.S. 52 north bf here.. Police said Ward’s auto crossed all:the foqf lanes of the road and hit a- truck driven by Rulas Ram som, .39, Chicago. Ransom said he 'tried to avoid the collision by pulling off the road.

Allied Lines North Os Seoul Assailed By Reds T O ’ C* J. * In Second Savage Drive

Three Budgets Are Reduced By Council ! Three And One Half Cents Off Tax Rate County councilmen Wednesday shaved off three and one-half cents from three budgets under consideration, and the reduction will equal approximately $18,500 in less taxes. Completing their work, councilijnen reduced the pounty’s budget One cent, from 49 to 48 cents; a Iwo-cent reduction was .made in he hospital budget lowering that ate to six cents from the eight Jen(s which was sought. On&thalf cent was reduced from the welfare rate with (he acknowledgement that the lower rate will still give that department increased income due to the higher valuation. valuation of takable property pn which the rates were based totalled almost S4O million. .7 (While these were the only budets considered by the county counil in their two-day session, the bounty’s tax adjustment board, [which meets ■ Monday, will consider others as well. Included in addition to the county, hospital and welfare will h e hudgetd for cities, townships' and schocdb. Members of the county council also reduced county highway budget by $20,000. but Is does not affect the• tax rate. The council claimed that while it is estimated that approximately' $200;000 will be received by the highway department for their use during he next budget year, there was no assurance of it. Thjey stated thrift future special meetings could be called to appropriate any additional funds. : our Persons Hurt As Aufo Overturns ■ s Driver And W|man Seriously Injured 3 I. 1 \ I Four persons were (*f them seriously—whgn a car driven by Victor Gilbert, , 23, of Port Huron. Mich., struck a bridge abutment six miles norta of Decalur on U.S. 27 and flipped the car Completely over. R The car was headed mirth at thp dime of the accident, occurred about 5 o’clock this Those injured and brought to the Adams county memorials hospital included the driver, sustained U possible skull fractal e; Mrs. Mirty Varney, 35, 2831?, Lawrence street. Fort Wayne, whs suffered a fractured jaw, interlal ear damige, possible skull and x>ssible fracture bf the.<ight leg. Injured less seriously were James Varney, 31, who suffered severe lead lacerations, and the Varneys a»n, Fred, four, who sustained deep acerations of the scalp. Others in the car were uninjured, i|ll of them children of thb Varneys: Uoyd Wallen, 11. Willis Wallen, ?ight, Christine, six, and Geraldine, Mie. : —i Sheriff Bob Shraluka and state hooper Walter Schindler investigated the accident anR reported Chat Varney told them he believed Jilbert dozed at the wheel, caupipg the car to veer to the left, strike •he guard rail, then the concrete corner of the bridge. Gilbert was semi-conscious in the hospital And unable to answer investigating officers’ questions. The car then flipped over on its top in the middle of the highway just north of the bridge. The car was completely destroyed. , Varney also explained that they had-hired Gilbert, whom they knew only as “Bernie,” to drive them to West Virginia and back to Fort Wayne to return two of their children who were vacationing there. All of the injured were brought to the hospital in Decatur ambulances. The accjdent Is being further inVeetigitbtL by state and county police. 1 ■“■-.7'

Gen. Ridgway Demands New Parley Site Message Viewed As i' Put Up Or Shut Up Challenge To Reds J | Tokyo, Sept' 6 —(U0.4-r Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway demanded a new Korean 'cease-tire ooj)terenc6 site tonight' and told the Reds to halt their “constant deceit*’ unlesb they want to break off i the talks' for good. | . The United Nations. supreme commander threw back at the Reds as “false and ? malevolent’'' their charges that-UN 'forces had violated Kaesong's neutrality. K The Rdds themselves, he said, manufactured the evidence and he ca||,ed in the of the UN for bn end to “these despicable practices which hafe received world widelpondemnatiojn” )!-..■>' L jp_. Ridgway’s message to North Kopremier Gep. Kim II Sung and Communist Chinese Gen.? Peng Teh Hi|ai was viewed as a ‘‘put up; or , shut up” challenge to get the ceasetalks' going again it the Reds rogly want to efid the ’ ,she message gave the Reds no . leeway. It eliminated the usual “I . your reply” because Rißgway made it clear the only com- ’ mifnication from the Communists the UN wishes to consider is one , setting a 'time (for discussing An-other'cease-fire site. j , The UN is ready to ipeet, Communist liaison officers at any time to “discuss the selection of a new site,” Ridgway said. Hej left it up to the Reds to prove their desire for peaces l .|' j, (In Washington, Republican sena- = tors George D. Aiken, Vermont, and Milton R. Young, North Dakota, also called for movement of the cease-fire talks from They suggested Switzerland as la possible site.) ' L * Later Ridgway’s command headquarter's issued a release stating that “it is obvious that! Khesong, situated as it is within Communist lines and policed solely by Communist forced, doe§^-ft»t—provide the neutral apd non-controversial site riecessary \for satisfactory discussions between belligerents.” It said the argument bver Kaesong’s -neutrality has overshadowed the original purpose of the ceasefire talks. I ? ■ ■hi ' . ~ . - r ; ■ — — “l I Decatur Will Host * Nurses Os District | Northeast District Meets Here Sept. 11 The Adams county Burses association will be hpst t®a district meeting of the Northeastern Indiana association at theVAmerican Legion home in Decatur hex! Tuesday evening at 8 o’clock, it was announced today. | i': Miss Marie D’Andrea, educational director of nurses at St Vincent hospital, Indianapolis, will show a reel on “Atomic and will also lead a panel discussion on the part of the nursing profession in event of atomic attack. : j Registered nurses from the Northeastern Indiana district are expected to attend. Tne district comprises Adams, Allert, DeKalb, Huntington, Noble, Steuben, Wells .find Whitley counties. \| ■ ' The committee of Adams county nurses, in charge of thfe district meeting is composed of: Miss Fiprence Lichtensteigen superintendent of the Adams bounty me- ' mortal . hospital; Miss Eleanbr ■ Dronke. Mrs. p Maxine| Schmitz, Mas Eloise Noll, Miss Edna Braun, < Margaret Biting find Miss I, J®n Shockley. \IP - I ''' S- I i ■ IH

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■:■ ■ ■ ■. : I ’ ' ' Indications Mount* ’ ■ j ' Reds May Now Be Preparing For New All-Out Offensive Bth Army Headquarters. Friday, Sept. 7.—(UPJ—! The Chinese Communists opened their) seo ond savage attack in 24 hours last nighs on the allied lines north of Septil and at last report the* battle still was raging. /Jr’ j 5 Front dispatches said the new attack was opened at 10:30 p.m. (6:30 am. OST) Jn at least battalion strength of 1,000 men or more. I ,w ’; ’ ' One ■allied forward unit northi west of Yonchon was reported falling back to its own) lines. The Communists attacked after a light mortar bombardment in a Sector north of that In which they made their first attack shortly after midpight Thursday morning. There were steadily "increasing indications that the Reds might be preparing for an all-out pffensive. Dispatches from the front reported increased enemy aerial activity. Two YAK-9 ground support planes jumped allied Mosquito control planes yesterday eagt of the Yonchon sector, without? |iarm-. • ing thfiim. • • |.) ■' 4 : ' United States infantrymen caught j in the first Red attack fought; their way .back to sfefetyj in a 16-hoiir hati tie through upwards of 2,500* tank- ■ supported Chinese. The attack was . made after a heavy bombardment . by artillery and mortars. ~ <■ The Red troops with Russianmade T-34 tanks attacked ’shortly after midnight Thursday morning. They came down the classic im vasion route toward Seoul, capital Os? the Korean republic, frbm a point west of Yonchon 35 miles to the north. j' The American Gl’s. apparently hopelessly c|it off. fought their way to safety with the aid of tanks and arrived in tljeir own lines last evening, dazed and exhausted but ; bringing thdlr. dead and wounded with them? ,f' \ ' r j * The Red shock troops, backed by Russian-made T-34 tanks, drove a wedge three miles deep into the allied lines ;west of Yonchon before they were stopped. I ' By nightfall the fighting had dwindled to exchanges of small arms fire. ’ ‘ ' But United Nations troops.hasth ly threw up ai. defense perimeter oh the northwest .bank of the Imjin rtver in expectation of a renewal of the drive at any moment. On the east-central front, United States;' infantrymen and marines, witk the support of troops of) other allied countries, occupied new hill masses in consolidating _ drives which /gave them “bloody ridge” and the “punchbowl.” ? ./ Fanning northward from bloody ridge, American 2d infantry division troops and their allies cap l tured three major hills which North Koreans abandoned in headlong flight. The allies counted 606 bodies of enemy dead on\ bloody ridge, only a fraction of tho Reds lost in that battle. 1 Allied officers Said that .the Chinese, backed by. two full divisions in the j Immediate area andj thousands of Russia’s Caucasian puppet troops a few. miles away might renew their drive in even greater force at any time. I ' --t' I r ' i Two-Month Strike On Pullrpan Is Settled ; Washington, Sept. 6.—-(UP) — The Federal Mediation Service today announced settlement of the~twb-month strike aga|n(st the. Pullman Standard Cfir Manufacturing. Co. J , t ’ Details of the agreement were not disclosed immediately The walkout was called early in July by the United Ste^l'Workers (CIO) to back up its demands for high wages and other jcontracb iniprovementa. Company I plants at Hammond, Ind., Butler, Pa., and Bessemer, Ala., haVe ..been shut down completely. I